Legal Opinion

In Re Beckman

District Court, N.D. Alabama

Decided May 26, 1943No. 2254PublishedCited by 9 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MULLINS, District Judge.

The bankrupt, Joseph J. Beckman, filed his voluntary petition in bankruptcy on October 29, 1942. Prior to bankruptcy and on November 30, 1934, the bankrupt effected a policy of life insurance on his own life in the New York Life Insurance Company for the face amount "of $2,500, and Frederick C. Beckman and Mary W. Beckman were named in the policy as beneficiaries. The beneficiaries are an uncle and an aunt by marriage, and they have been referred to in argument as the foster parents of the insured. The beneficiaries have never been ' changed.

At the time of the…

2Cases cited18 opinions

  1. Holden v. StrattonSupreme Court of the United States · 1905
  2. Cohen v. SamuelsSupreme Court of the United States · 1917
  3. In Re MessingerCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1928
  4. Steagall v. Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1920
  5. Taylor v. Southern Bank & Trust Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1933

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3Cited by9 opinions

  1. In Re WorthingtonUnited States Bankruptcy Court, W.D. Kentucky · 1983
  2. Home Security Life Insurance Company v. McDonaldSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1970
  3. In Re WhiteDistrict Court, N.D. West Virginia · 1960
  4. In Re LambDistrict Court, E.D. Louisiana · 1967
  5. Shepard v. Morris (In Re Morris)United States Bankruptcy Court, N.D. Alabama · 1983

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